Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her role in the searing Best Picture winner “12 Years a Slave,” and Gwendoline Christie of “Game of Thrones” will now be heading to a galaxy far, far away in “Star Wars: Episode VII.”

Lucasfilm said Nyong’o, who was long-rumored to be considered for a role in the new entry in the space saga, would be joining a cast that already includes original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, as well as Max Von Sydow, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac.

Joining them, as well, will be Christie, better known as the towering warrior Brienne of Tarth in HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”